Can Justice and Fairness Enlarge International Environmental Agreements?
Department of Business Administration and Economics, European University Viadrina, PO Box 1786, D-15207 Frankfurt (Oder), Germany
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Games 2010, 1(2), 137-158; https://doi.org/10.3390/g1020137
Received: 11 May 2010 / Revised: 1 June 2010 / Accepted: 14 June 2010 / Published: 24 June 2010
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Coalition Formation)
Abstract
The literature on International Environmental Agreements (IEAs) predicts a rather low number of signatories to an IEA. This is in sharp contrast to empirical evidence. As experimental economics provides some evidence for more complex human behavior, extending the theory of IEAs to a broader class of preferences is clearly promising. The present paper shows that where countries’ preferences incorporate justice and fairness there will be a strong incentive for them to choose similar abatement policies within and outside an IEA. Consequently, free-riding at the expense of the signatory states diminishes and participation in an IEA becomes a more successful strategy, so that the size of stable IEAs increases. View Full-Text
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Grüning, C.; Peters, W. Can Justice and Fairness Enlarge International Environmental Agreements? Games 2010, 1, 137-158.